Kimminau v. Uribe Refuse Service & EMC Insurance

BACKGROUND

The claimant, Darrel Kimminau, was employed as a garbage hauler by Uribe Refuse Service (Uribe) for approximately 10 years before suffering a repetitive trauma injury to his left shoulder that left him with a 20-percent impairment to his left upper extremity. Uribe was directed by the single judge of the Workers’ Compensation Court to pay medical expenses incurred in the treatment of the injury, and the review panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court additionally directed Uribe to provide future medical care for the injury. Neither the compensability of Kimminau’s injury nor the…